rapidaneurism

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Comment · 3 days ago
What if time travel was involved?
Comment · 9 days ago
I think the argument is that it should be illegal to pass out lying across 4 subway/metro/tube seats.

And that is because it is not polite to take up more than the minimum space needed. (Like using seats for your bag, or putting your feet on the seat across from you.)

Comment · 14 days ago
I suspect it will be more difficult to increase the price to above actual cost if there is capacity for alternatives.
Comment · 26 days ago
I feel a bit silly, but I do not understand how the results were verified.
Comment · 26 days ago
An added benefit of voter id is that by making it easy or cheap for one groups and difficult or expensive for an other (or choosing acceptable IDs that already have these characteristics) you can create some friction to make it more difficult for the wrong people to vote.

That is why I like voter ID if it relies on documents provided for free with minimal fuss.

Comment · 1 month ago
Steelmaning it: perhaps people who cannot write to save their life are tired of grammar Nazis correcting them? (Admittedly since the llms I have noticed less and less people being pedantic about these things, perhaps it is like the ill fitting cupboard door signaling that this is handmade)
Comment · 1 month ago
If I instruct an employee to prioritize my profit in a way that opens both of us to criminal prosecution, there is a non zero chance of them whistle blowing or even cooperating with the authorities to prosecute me.

I don't see such a path with an llm.

Comment · 1 month ago
And most people do not have guards and dogs walking around the perimeter, but we still blame the burglars for breaking in their houses.
Comment · 2 months ago
Arguably when left alive your health is by definition better than the alternative.

I suspect you mean the good health for a few months before death compared with a worse health during and after treatment. Still I had to make the quip.

Comment · 2 months ago
Same experience here, but it only works in some fields like physics and maths. it totally fails in fields that are "made up" with no rhyme or reason.
Comment · 2 months ago
I see an opportunity for an import hurdle masquerading as a security compliance mark on all Chinese imports.

I doubt it will be implemented as there are no western cheap gadget industries left to lobby for it, and the big players would prefer the fud of buy cheap be tracked.

Comment · 2 months ago
The parents buy the new car and keep the older one for the teenager.
Comment · 3 months ago
Great points, but I think that banning open source databases would have been better not for employees, but for shareholders.
Comment · 3 months ago
The response was similar when the new grock came out.
Comment · 3 months ago
Does it matter for training?

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